Shipping Manager

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is now hiring a Shipping Manager at our Cleveland, TN Corrugated site.

The Shipping Manager will utilize leadership, operations experience, and communication to identify and convert change improvement opportunities related to people, process, and systems.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific is a leading manufacturing company specializing in Paper, Packaging, Consumer, and Building Products.

What You Will Do


* Lead, motivate and develop a team of hourly employees to increase individual and overall business performance goals; Develop direct report development plans and people management strategies


* Collaborate in daily and weekly OTIF planning and strategy meetings, continuously striving for OTIF improvement


* Foster and develop a culture based on our Principle Based Management (PBM®)


* Promote a safety culture that will manufacture, warehouse, and deliver contaminate free products meeting all required product safety laws, regulations, and corporate policies


* Manage shipping and warehouse functions along with inventory accuracy for the plant and 3rd party warehouses


* Focus on shipping efficiencies for On Time and In Full customer deliveries


* Communicate with Sales and Customer Service teams to meet customer needs


* Collaborate with outside carriers to manage truck fleets along with outside vendors


* Evaluate deliveries, shipments, and product levels to improve inventory problems and shortages


* Managing RCA completion and action closure tracking on all external carrier/warehouse OTIF misses


* Chief Safety Officer for the site on Mobile Equipment

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Experience in a shipping/warehouse role in a manufacturing/industrial environment

What Will Put You Ahead



* Bachelor's degree in business, logistics, systems engineering, supply chain management or similar


* Prior experience in a manufacturing/industrial environment


* Certificated as an OSHA Train the Trainer Forklift Instructor


* Experience with computerized inventory systems


* Experience using ERP/WMS software systems


* Project Management Experience

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